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Repair Spy

Takes a screenshot and a webcam snapshot and emails them to flickr. Requires isightcapture. Hacked up to spy on the Apple repair team as they try to repair my Mac Book Pro's backlight for the second time.

#!/bin/bash
# requires isightcapture http://www.intergalactic.de/hacks.html

# path to save the images
PATH=/Users/default/

# flickr email address
EMAIL="yourflickremail+private@photos.flickr.com"

# tags to attach to each picture uploaded
TAGS="repair_spy"

TIMESTAMP=`/bin/date "+%y%m%d%H%M%S"`
FRIENDLY_TIMESTAMP=`/bin/date "+%Y/%m/%d %H:%M"`

#take pics
/usr/sbin/screencapture -mxC $PATHscreen_$TIMESTAMP.png
/usr/local/bin/isightcapture -t png $PATHisight_$TIMESTAMP.png

#post to flickr
/usr/bin/uuencode $PATHscreen_$TIMESTAMP.png $PATHscreen_$TIMESTAMP.png | /usr/bin/mail -s "Repair Spy Screenshot - $FRIENDLY_TIMESTAMP tags: $TAGS" $EMAIL
/usr/bin/uuencode $PATHisight_$TIMESTAMP.png $PATHisight_$TIMESTAMP.png | /usr/bin/mail -s "Repair Spy iSight Cature - $FRIENDLY_TIMESTAMP tags: $TAGS" $EMAIL

Toss this in your crontab like so, making sure to run it as the user that you provide to the Apple Techs

*/1    *       *       *       *       default /Users/default/repair_spy >& /dev/null

to apple osx bash by jnewland on Feb 26, 2007

Get Frontmost Window

tell application "System Events"
	set frontmostApplication to name of the first process whose frontmost is true
end tell

to osx applescript by willcodeforfoo on Jan 04, 2007

Objective-C and Cocoa: Human-readable file size from number of bytes

// Returns a human-readable string showing the file size from the number of bytes

- (NSString *)stringFromFileSize:(int)theSize
{
	float floatSize = theSize;
	if (theSize<1023)
		return([NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i bytes",theSize]);
	floatSize = floatSize / 1024;
	if (floatSize<1023)
		return([NSString stringWithFormat:@"%1.1f KB",floatSize]);
	floatSize = floatSize / 1024;
	if (floatSize<1023)
		return([NSString stringWithFormat:@"%1.1f MB",floatSize]);
	floatSize = floatSize / 1024;

	// Add as many as you like

	return([NSString stringWithFormat:@"%1.1f GB",floatSize]);
}

to osx string format cocoa objc filesize by maximile on Nov 26, 2006

Syntax highlighting with vim & Ruby

From: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/64262

This snippet will convert source code files to syntax-colored html files.
usage: vim-syntax-highlighting.rb src.rb src.html


require 'tempfile'

$VERBOSE=nil
STDERR.reopen(Tempfile::new($$)) unless STDIN.tty?

fin, fout, _ = ARGV
fin = ((fin.nil? or fin == '-') ? STDIN : open(fin))
fout = ((fout.nil? or fout == '-') ? STDOUT : open(fout,'w+'))

ts = Tempfile::new($$), Tempfile::new($$)
ts[0].write fin.read
ts.each{|t| t.close}
command = %Q( vim -f +'syn on' +'set filetype=ruby' +'set background=light' +'run! syntax/2html.vim' +'w! #{ ts[1].path }' +'qa!' - < #{ ts[0].path } > /dev/null 2>&1 )
#command = %Q( vim -f +'syn on' +'set filetype=c' +'set background=dark' +'run! syntax/2html.vim' +'w! #{ ts[1].path }' +'qa!' - < #{ ts[0].path } > /dev/null 2>&1 )
system command
ts.each{|t| t.open; t.rewind}
fout.write(ts[1].read)
ts.each{|t| t.close!}

to ruby osx vim syntax highlight by ntk on Nov 24, 2006

Rebuild the locate library on OSX

// Rebuilds OSX's locate library. Behaves the same as updatedb on other systems.

sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb

to osx locate updatedb by duncanponting on Nov 14, 2006

rsync backup of a Mac

sudo /usr/local/bin/rsync -aREx --delete --exclude='.Spotlight-*' --exclude '/private/var/vm/*' [IP-address of Mac mini]::PowerBookBackup

to osx rsync backup by willcodeforfoo on Oct 15, 2006

Run R from the command line

// This runs R from the command line in batch mode.
// The log file is output to track R's progress

R CMD BATCH --vanilla path/to/file.R file.log &

to terminal osx r by mroutley on Sep 21, 2006

OSX Restart Lookupd

sudo kill -HUP `ps -ax | grep lookupd | grep sbin | awk '/(\d+).*/ { print $1 }'`

to osx bash shell awk lookupd by phlipper on Sep 21, 2006

Fix Terminal spacing bug

defaults write com.apple.Terminal FontWidthSpacing 1.003

to terminal osx by willcodeforfoo on Jul 12, 2006 1 Comments

Building tcpflow on OS X

curl -O http://www.circlemud.org/pub/jelson/tcpflow/tcpflow-0.21.tar.gz
tar -zxvf tcpflow-0.21.tar.gz
cd tcpflow-0.21
cp /usr/share/libtool/config.* . 
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
sudo make install

to osx tcpflow compiling by willcodeforfoo on Jul 12, 2006

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